My Week 1 AP ballot: LSU is No. 1

I thought it was an easy call to elevate LSU to No. 1 on this week’s AP ballot.

The Tigers, with their 40-27 victory over Oregon, have the best victory of this week-old season — and certainly the best victory among the nation’s perceived elite teams.

Only 16 of the other 59 AP voters agreed with me; Oklahoma is still No. 1, receiving 32 first-place votes.

I consider my ballot to be “fluid” from week to week. Teams don’t get landlocked into a certain place, unable to jump another team that keeps on winning.

That’s why I moved LSU up from No. 4, and Boise State from No. 5 to No. 2 after beating Georgia.

As soon as Oklahoma and Alabama, for example, start posting bigger victories — and that could happen soon enough — then I’ll re-evaluate the entire body of work.

I went back and forth between putting Arizona State in the Top 25, but a win over lower-division UC-Davis didn’t provide enough evidence to jump the Devils into my rankings. A win over Missouri this Friday would do just that, in a significant way.